Improved egg holder and packer



nN.4,o7, p PATENTBD JULY 4, 1865.

' l o. T. BBDELL. Y

EGG HOLDER AND PAGKER;

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UNITE STATES P ATENT OFFICE.

0. T. B'lllllbb, OF NEW. YORK, N.

iMPRovEo EGG HOLDER AND PACKER.

- Speciiieation forming part of Letters I ateut No. 48,507, dated July 4, 1865.

lo all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, O. T. BEDELL, ot' No.25 Broadway, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Egg Holder and Packer and I do hereby del clare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ot' this specification, in

which- Figure l represents a `plan or top view of this invention. Fig. 2` is a transverse vert-ical central section ot' the saine.

Similar letters ot' 'reference indicate like parts.

This invention consists in a plate ordisk made ot' india-rubber or other suitable material, and provided with a series ot' pockets made of india-rubber or other soi'tand iiexible.

material, though I use, by preference, india-V rubber or gutta-pereha.` This plate is provided with a series oi' pockets, B, each capable of holding an egg, and these pockets are to he made oi `india-rubber orother soft and flexible material. It' the plate or disk is made of indiarubbcr, the pockets will be cast solid with thel same, and I propose to makeproper molds and manufacture my egg-holders out of such material; but it is obvious that the plates or disks might be made of leather, or ot' wood or meta-l, and the pockets inserted into them in any desirable manner; and the pockets, instead of being made ot' india-rubber, might be made I ot' leather, felt, or of some rigid material lined.

and covered with leather, felt, or' other soft' material.

ln manufacturing my egg holder and packer I propose to furnish each plate with a series .of pockets ot' unequal size, so that each pocket can be filled with an egg which will lit the saine exactly. y i

When theplatcs are to be used for packing eggs I propose to lit them into a box or barrel, and when the pockets ofthe irst plate or disk are filled with eggs it will be placed into .said

box oi' harrel, then the second ou top of the4 rst, and so on until the bos or barrel is filled, thepockets ot' cach succeeding disk being made to rest upon the tips ot' the eggs in the pockets below it. By these means a large quantity of eggs can be packed in a box or barrel and -forward ed to any desired distance without danger ot' breakage.

In order to keepthe disks or plates securely in pla-ce one above the other, they may be provided with central holes, 11 so that each disk or plate can be put on a rod rising from the ceuterot' the box or barrel, and in this case I propose to construct said rod with as many 4shoulders as there will be'disks or plates, and

to reduce the holes in said disks or plates gradually to lit t0 the gradnelly-diminishing size ofthe rod.t l I I claim as new and desire to .secure by Let'- ters Patent- An egg holder and packer produced from'a disk or plate, A, provided v with or without a central hole, a, and with a series of pockets', B, each capable to hohl an egg, substantially as herein set forth.

o'IIs T. BEDELL.

Witnesses M. M. LIVINGSTON, 0. L. ToPLIFF. 

